Posted: Jul 27, 2014 11:50 pm
Although i am not really satisfied that i even know what metaphysics is, i think i have engaged in a fair bit of it, and i have done a fair bit of meditation and even had a few psychedelic experiences to boot. I feel that whatever metaphysics is, whati have done has been a waste of time, that my experience of metaphysics has been of simply telling stories that i can't verify, that is there is no satisfactory evidencce to back up the stories i have created.
I would be curious to know how individual peoples meditative experiences can be integrated into some kind of framework. But as an individual i can make no ontological or epistemilogical claims about what is going on. therefore metaphysical storytelling makes no sense either, that is in my experience my attempts to do more than integrate my personal experiences into my own narrative ie when i start to slip into ontological claims about what is going on it immediately becomes dissatisfying.
What i have noticed is the power of these stories, i compare it to religious stories and their power, it seems very easy to become trapped in loops of unresolvable dissatisfaction, and for this reason i believe a ruthless attitude to these metaphysical habits is highly desirable, i see little difference between some of these ideas and the related ones in religion in their power to make people miserable. so fuck metaphysics if it has anything of value then it will survive, it seeems it is pretty good at that anyway.
I accept tat there is metaphysics (in a sense) involved in all our lives, but it seems to be getting less and less for some people, and seemingly with no obvious detriment to them, which suggests that deliberate metaphysics is simply unnecessary to leading an enjoyable life and as i have already mentioned i would say metaphysics, at least for me would appear to contribute to the opposite kind of life....oh well
I would be curious to know how individual peoples meditative experiences can be integrated into some kind of framework. But as an individual i can make no ontological or epistemilogical claims about what is going on. therefore metaphysical storytelling makes no sense either, that is in my experience my attempts to do more than integrate my personal experiences into my own narrative ie when i start to slip into ontological claims about what is going on it immediately becomes dissatisfying.
What i have noticed is the power of these stories, i compare it to religious stories and their power, it seems very easy to become trapped in loops of unresolvable dissatisfaction, and for this reason i believe a ruthless attitude to these metaphysical habits is highly desirable, i see little difference between some of these ideas and the related ones in religion in their power to make people miserable. so fuck metaphysics if it has anything of value then it will survive, it seeems it is pretty good at that anyway.
I accept tat there is metaphysics (in a sense) involved in all our lives, but it seems to be getting less and less for some people, and seemingly with no obvious detriment to them, which suggests that deliberate metaphysics is simply unnecessary to leading an enjoyable life and as i have already mentioned i would say metaphysics, at least for me would appear to contribute to the opposite kind of life....oh well